Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeElizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 févr. 2008 - 272 pages This collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities. |
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... disease processes, and is inevitably deteriorating throughout a person's life. It is degeneration within the physical structure of the brain that causes the process of dementing. The second level is hypothetical. 'It is the highest ...
... disease, captures something of the deep loss that accompanies dementia for all concerned: Lovers, once intimately attuned to each other's rhythms, find themselves negotiating life's blessings and curses with a stranger. Children, having ...
... disease] causes him to not know us we are to know him. And even as he barely resembles the man he used to be – commanding, decisive, large – he is still husband, father, brother-in-law, and uncle to us. Fidelity asks this much of us ...
... disease or disability); when we are very old, it may become a prison that burdens our diminishing powers. Accounts by disabled writers 'teach us that the serious diminution of any primary sense radically changes people's understanding ...
... learning disabilities. It also includes physical disfigurement and the presence in the body of disease-causing organisms such as HIV. Current disabilities, together with those experienced 38 / AGEING, DISABILITY AND SPIRITUALITY.
Table des matières
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A Narrative of Ageing
Loss and Exclusion | 72 |
Ethical
and Theological Issues for
Dementia Care | 81 |
Exploring Disability
and Spirituality | 94 |
The Interplay of Faith
and Depression in Later Life | 163 |
The Potential for Choir Work
to Reduce Depression and
Meet Spiritual Needs | 182 |
Chapter
15
Humour and Its Link to Meaning
and Spirituality in War | 200 |
Chapter
16
Pastoral Rituals Ageing and
New Paths into Meaning | 217 |
The Possibilities for
Wellbeing and Care | 233 |
REFERENCES
| 240 |
CONTRIBUTORS
| 258 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 263 |
Jacobs
Wrestling with the Unknown
Genesis 32 | 106 |
Addressing the Challenge of
Dementia in Later Life | 118 |
A Journey Inwards
to a Spiritual Self | 134 |
Buddhist Perspectives for a
Theology of Pastoral Care
for the Ageing and Persons
with Disabilities | 145 |
AUTHOR INDEX
| 269 |
back cover | 273 |